{"id":823,"date":"2005-11-20T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=823"},"modified":"2005-11-20T17:01:16","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T21:01:16","slug":"red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"The Red."},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/span>here’s a couple of posts sticking in the back of my mind: Alfons’ short reminder of Spain’s political duality<\/a> (and the younger generation’s push to break the silence) and Alan’s (gigantic) effort to host the Carnival of the Red Ensign<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Both posts remind of a question asked to me, if I, politically, was one of thoses ‘peace loving socialists’. I replied that I considered myself a-political, but that I, in fact cannot imagine any ‘rationale’ for going to any war. War doesn’t make victims and veterans alone. It’s a plague that affects people for years as it passes on to next generations. Thank you very much: while I might be considered left of the ‘aisle’ by many, I consider myself a humanist first.\n<\/p>\n

At least I don’t pretend to be able to solve the problems in the world. Being a-political, also gives me the right to objectively consider and approach political motions and motives with a healthy dose of scepticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a couple of posts sticking in the back of my mind: Alfons’ short reminder of Spain’s political duality (and the younger generation’s push to break the silence) and Alan’s (gigantic) effort to host the Carnival of the Red Ensign. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}